Sometimes it's the simplest ideas that work best. For this creepy, Lynch-style outing, director Carl Burgess trawled stock footage of grinning actors in the Getty archives.

2 JANELLE MONAE - COLD WAR

The screen is a close-up of Monáe's face; hard not to compare it to Sinead O'Connor's Nothing Compares 2 U – until suddenly she fluffs a line, shakes her head with frustration, and a single tear rolls down. The lip-sync illusion is shattered. It's an intense, possibly staged moment, but never less than arresting.

3 ERYKAH BADU - WINDOW SEAT

This one's literally arresting: Badu was fined for her strip through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, site of JFK's assassination. Like Gaga's cigarette shades or MIA's redheads, it's a video that cuts through the noise to make the news. There's even a backwards version.

4 SOUR - HIBI NO NEIRO

This Japanese band could give OK Go a run for their money. The highly co-ordinated video was edited from webcam footage shot by a global fan base into a mind-blowing graphic display. People seem to interact with each other's screens; it's like social networking remade as pop art.

5 ARCADE FIRE - THE WILDERNESS DOWNTOWN

Interactive online experience that turns your home town into the backdrop for We Used To Wait via Google Maps; so good you hardly notice it doubles as a demo for Google Chrome and the zippy hi-tech possibilities offered by new web language HTML5.

6 CEE-LO - FUCK YOU

A lesson in modern memes. First, Cee-Lo's tune pops up on YouTube with just the lyrics. Then, the song takes on a life of its own, with re-edits dropping the song at inappropriate moments into everything from The Shawshank Redemption to Do The Right Thing. Cee-Lo's final "real" video is pretty funny, too.

7 RADIOHEAD - LIVE IN PRAHA

Maximum DIY: over 50 Czech fans shot their own Radiohead gig in Prague with handheld HD cameras. The band loved it and gave them the mixing-desk masters to use.

8 POP LEVI - SEMI BABE

Another simple exercise in playing with the form: you have to line up two YouTube windows and get them to play at the same time.